Improvement in corsets



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE GEORGE H. CLARKE, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

IMPROVEMENT IN C ORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,150, dated J une 3,1879; application filed November 1S, 1878.

`To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. CLARKE, of Portland, in the county ofMultnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Corset,of which the following is a speciiication.

The ligure is a front perspective view of a corset illustrating 1nyinvention.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved corset, designedespecially for ladies nursing children, which shall be so constructed asto allow the breasts to be conveniently exposed to give the childrenaccess to them, and which at other times will cover the breasts andprotect them from pressure.

The invention consists in a corset having longitudinal slits in theparts that cover the breasts, and having steels secured to it at theedges of the said slits, provided with fastenings, and pivoted at theirlower ends to steels in the lower part of the said corset, ashereinafter fully described.

A represents a corset constructed in the usual way. In the parts al,that form the enlargements covering the breasts, are formed longitudinalslits a2, the edges of which are heinined or have shirrs attaced to orformed in them to receive steels B. The steels B are made similar to theordinaryr steels that connect the parts of the corset A in front, and attheir lower ends they overlap and are pivoted to the opposite sides ofthe upper end of a` The steels B are made with a suitable curve to passover the breasts. are fastened to each other by pills b' and slottedplates b2, in the usual way, and should have suicient stili'ness toprotect the breasts from the pressure of the clothing.

With this construction, by unfastening the steels B- from each otherthey can be turned back suiieiently to allo1 the breasts to be exposedthrough the slits a2 and to give the child access to them.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- A corset, A, having longitudinal slitsa2 inthe parts a, that cover the breasts, and having steels B, secured to itat the edges of the said slits, provided with fastenings b1 b2, andpivoted at their lower ends to a steel, C, in the lower part of the saidcorset, substantially as herein shown and described.

HENRY HALL NORTHUP, WILLIAM BALL GILBERT.

